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Aim: To study the impact of industrial water pollution on Agriculture and rural households in Bhavani River basin of Tamil Nadu. Study Design: Multistage random sampling. Place and Duration of the Study: The study was conducted in the Sathyamangalam block of Erode district of Tamil Nadu during September 2021 to December 2021. Methodology: Erode district of Tamil Nadu has been purposively selected due to high intensity of industrial units. In the second stage, Sathyamangalam block of Erode district, was selected based on the extent of external effects on land and water. In total, 360 respondents are selected as a sample, constituting ten persons in each affected and unaffected village. Both primary and secondary data were collected for the present study. Results and Conclusion: The industrial water pollution in Bhavani River basin of Tamil Nadu leads to changes in agricultural pattern, reduction in farm income, decline in agricultural activities and most of the rural households were shifted to non-farming activities in this study area. In order to overcome these issues, it is suggested to develop alternative sources of water for irrigation.

The study assessed the impact of paper board industry effluent irrigation on soil quality under agroforestry system. The agroforestry system was maintained at the Tamil Nadu Newsprint and Paper Limited (TNPL) - Unit II located at Mondipatti Village, Manaparai Taluk, Trichy district, Tamil Nadu. The site is situated at the intersection of latitude 10º 41' N and longitude 78º 26" E. The soil analysis were carried out for various quality parameter as per standard procedure. The results reveals that application paper board industry effluent were significantly influenced the organic carbon, Available P, and K. Hydraulic conductivity of surface soils was ranged from 2.02 to 4.39 cm h-1 with the mean value of 3.27 cm h-1. Infiltration rate was ranged from 6.6 to 52.5 cm h-1 with the mean value of 23.0 cm h-1. Among the micronutrients status zinc was recorded below the critical level whereas cupper, iron and manganese were recorded above the critical level. Microbial biomass carbon (MBC), Soil microbial population (Bacteria, Fungi and Actinomycetes) and enzyme activities (Urease and Phosphatase) were significantly higher when application with paper board industry effluents under agroforestry system. The activity of soil enzymes and MBC showed significant positive correlation with organic carbon, available water and pH. These findings reveal that paper board industry effluent act as an irrigation source and fertigation under agroforestry system.

The phrase, “Rice is life” aptly describes the importance of rice in food as well in nutritional security, particularly in Asian countries. Soil nutrient management in case of rice cultivation mainly focus on the major nutrient application but rice plants require high quantity of silicate and micro nutrient but the cost is not affordable. Hence, Coal combustion fly ash has a high available Si content, alkaline pH as well as micronutrient was selected as a potential source in this study and the field experiment was conducted. Abundant supply of micronutrients like Zn, Fe, Cu and Mn along with P and K was recorded in the soil samples of plot treated with fly ash when compared with the plots with NPK alone. The availability of these nutrients has resulted in increased yield. Hence this would be scaled as an economically viable solution for hidden hunger in the areas in and around thermal power plants.

The residual effect of vermicomposts applied on preceding rice crop to the succeeding greengram under the rice- pulses cropping system was studied. The experiment was conducted at the wetland farms, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore by following the randomized complete block design (RBD) with 11 treatments and replicated thrice. After harvest of rice, greengram was raised as residual crop. The treatments followed were vermicomposts prepared from Eudrilus eugeniae + paddy straw (T1), Eudrilus eugeniae + coconut wastes (T2), Eudrilus eugeniae + Vegetable wastes(T3), Eudrilus eugeniae + farm wastes(T4), Eudrilus eugeniae + farm yard manure (FYM) (T5), Eisenia foetida + pady straw(T6), Eisenia foetida + coconut wastes(T7), Eisenia foetida + vegetable wastes(T8), Eisenia foetida + farm wastes(T9), Eisenia foetida + farm yard manure (FYM) (T10) and absolute control (T11). The result indicated that there was a residual effect of vermicompost in the greengram crop after rice. The residual effect in the treatment T2 (Eudrilus eugeniae + coconut wastes) found superior on growth parameters of greengram viz., plant height, drymatter production (DMP) and number of pods plant-1 and on seed and haulm yields than all other treatments. The treatment T2 (Eudrilus eugeniae + coconut wastes) was comparable to the treatment T7 (Eisenia foetida + coconut wastes). The lower growth and yield were found in the treatment Absolute control (T11). Among the treatments, the coconut wastes with the earthworm species Eudrilus eugeniae and Eisenia foetida performed well with better growth and yield of the greengram crop than the other wastes.

Suprarenal or adrenal gland haemorrhage is an uncommon but potentially lethal condition if unrecognised. Adrenal masses rarely present with haemorrhage, but they remain an important differential aetiology for adrenal bleeding. We present a novel case of primary adrenal lymphoma with adrenal haemorrhage in a middle-aged woman who presented with right-sided abdominal pain and class 1 haemorrhagic shock. She was found to have spontaneous unilateral adrenal gland haemorrhage in the absence of any underlying previous pathology. Presenting features, diagnosis and subsequent oncological management are reported.

This paper elucidates the half-band FIR filter, which plays an important role when applying decimation by a factor of two. When the down-conversion is applied in sampling rate, this digital filter is frequently employed in conjunction with down-samplers. Despite the fact that numerous approaches have been proposed for designing half-band FIR filters, this paper proposes an utterly unique method for designing and implementing multiplierless half-band FIR filters, which minimizes the coefficient sensitivity and also reduces hardware complexity of the conventional half-band FIR filter. The proposed desensitized and further desensitized multiplierless half-band FIR filters are analyzed with four high-speed parallel prefix adders in Xilinx Vivado development tool and built on Kintex 7 FPGA for exploring power consumption, number of LUTs and delay. The proposed half-band structure is compared with the classical half-band architecture with respect to power consumption, path delay and number of LUTs. Based on the attained results on Kintex 7 FPGA, the proposed low-sensitivity filter structure outperforms with a 41.09% reduction in the number of LUTs, a 11.91% reduction in delay and a 38.35% reduction in power consumption in contrast to the existing desensitized half-band filter. Subsequently, the proposed further desensitized filter provides a 4.87% reduction in stopband ripple than the desensitized structure and an 8.84% reduction than the existing half-band decimation filter.

The present study investigates the characterization of different coconut based low cost adsorbents like coconut shell biochar, zinc chloride impregnated coconut shell activated carbon, coir fibre and coir geotextile and their suitability characteristics as a filter bed in different wastewater treatment process. The characterization study helps to investigate their physical, chemical and morphological properties like proximate and ultimate analysis, iodine number, decolorizing power, SEM, Surface area using BET, Particle size and Zeta potential. The experiment results showed that among the different adsorbents activated carbon has high fixed carbon content (82.99 percent), more surface area (590.8 m2 g-1), low ash content (1.31 percent) with a decolorizing power of 240-300 mg g-1. The coir fibre and coir geotextile having neutral pH with negative surface charge easily adsorbs the positive cations from aqueous solutions at highest apparent density. The experimental findings suggest that the activated adsorbent which shows better results as an effective filter media for adsorption of organic compounds and pollutants from wastewater.

The conversion of atmospheric CO 2 into stable long lived carbon pools is an important phenomenon of soil carbon sequestration. Cocoa cultivation significantly increased the slow and passive carbon pools of soil. Significant increase in the organic fractions like humic acid, fulvic acids, non-humic and humin were observed in seven years cocoa cultivated soils. The organic matter fractions were significantly high during January and there after a decrease in trend were registered for all the three soils. A field study was carried out in the cocoa plantations of Moorje, Bantwal taluka, Dakshinakannada district, Karnataka. This study was carried out in five and seven years cocoa plantations in comparison with non-cocoa plantations.

Studies were conducted to estimate the impact of increase in temperature on number of generations of tobacco caterpillar, Spodoptera litura on peanut for seven different locations of various agro ecological zones of the country for baseline (1961 to 1990), present (1991 to 2005), near future (2021 to 2050) and distant future (2071 to 2098) climate change (A1B) scenarios. The daily minimum and maximum temperature (MinT and MaxT) records were used to obtain cumulative degree days (DD) for each generation of insect using a temperature threshold of 10°C. Faster accumulation of degree days will making it possible for one or two additional generations with shortened life cycle (completion of generation would be 5 to 6 days earlier) of S. litura was inferred for both near and distant-future climate change scenarios (CCS) compared to baseline and present periods, at all locations. The additional number of generations and variation in the generation time of S. litura across seven growing locations of India imply the definitive and differential impacts, respectively of the projected increasing temperature in the future CCS. Key words: Arachis hypogaea, climate change scenario, degree days, generation time, number of generation, Spodoptera litura.

Among the effects of impending climate change, drought will have a profound impact on crop productivity in the future. Response to drought stress has been studied widely, and the model plant Arabidopsis has guided the studies on crop plants with genome sequence information viz., rice, wheat, maize and sorghum. Since the value of functions of genes, dynamics of pathways and interaction of networks for drought tolerance in plants can only be judged by evidence from field performance, this mini-review provides a research update focussing on the current developments on the response to drought in crop plants. Studies in Arabidopsis provide the basis for interpreting the available information in a systems biology perspective. In particular, the elucidation of the mechanism of drought stress response in crops is considered from evidence-based outputs emerging from recent omic studies in crops.

The increasing demand for the high fidelity portable devices has laid emphasis on the development of low power and high performance systems. In the next generation processors, the low power design has to be incorporated into fundamental computation units, such as adders and multipliers. In this paper SERF and Modified SERF full adder topologies are presented. The analysis of Power, Delay, Power Delay Product (PDP) optimization characteristics of SERF Adder is designed. In order to achieve optimal power savings at smaller geometry sizes, proposed a heuristic approach known as Modified SERF adder model. The proposed Modified SERF adder model consumed the least power compare to SERF Adder with no deterioration in performance. Taken together, the results suggest that the Modified SERF Adder is well suited for ultra low power design and fast computation at smaller geometry sizes.

This study shows the lifestyle of bus drivers on their service. Nowadays we are facing problems while moving one place to another place. For this we need to plan where we want to move, through which mode to use to travel, like this we need to consider so many factors. So the transportation plays a major role for the smooth journey. In this regard the bus drivers play an important role to take the people from one place to another safely. We travelled a lot but we don't know the problems faced by the drivers and expectations of the drivers in their services. In this situation they need the support from various sources like passengers, bus owners, government, and general public etc. The factors determine the job satisfaction, working time, travelling time (task), bus maintenance, incentives, owners support, stress and relationship with passengers are dealt. The research design used for the study was descriptive research design. In this study simple random sampling techniques was employed in selecting the samples. The drivers (samples) were selected randomly and interviewed. The sample size is 75 and data collected from the respondents were converted into readable form to the process of classification and arrangements. The data was tabulated and analyzed for logical statement using statistical method like simple percentage analysis and Chi – square. The analysis says that the drivers’ satisfaction level and their expectations for better performance.